Iīm lucky enough to have grown up with a big fruit garden, lost of apple trees and the old saying below is sure true, we could eat apples every day of the year and as I can remember we were healthy children, all of us three siblings. And even if I donīt have a garden nowadays I love apples just as much as I did back then.

The most famous fruit in the World, - the apple! 
Through history the apple have been a symbol for health, love, power, and not to forget, knowledge.
The beautiful apple with itīs good taste had been appriciated by mankind for centuries. In many places around the World the apple is growing in the wild and one is not sure from where it originally came.
In Europe there are wild apples with tiny, sour fruits. In West Asia the wild apples are big and sweet and grows on bushlike trees. One knows for sure that apples was a part of the diet alreay during the Stone Age and where grown and refined in the antique Rome. In the monasteries they often cultivated apples and thatīs how they were spread over Europe. At the colonisation of America, Autstralia and New Zeeland they brought the apple with them and started the apple growing even there. There are lots of different kinds of apples and one of the oldest we know about today here in the North is Gravensteinger, from about year 1700.

The ancient Greeks were firmly convinced that the apple cured almost all illness and doctors have always ordinated apples for all from fever, heart failure and stomache illness to astma, TB and melancholy. It was also a common believe that the apple helped for alcoholism.

Many of the old housecures said that an apple could make a drunk person sober again and that a diet of fried apples could cure alcoholism! Well, who knows? Maybe itīs not true but what can be sure is that apples makes no harm, only good so enjoy, at least one apple a day!

Did you know...
- that the author Agatha Christie once said that she got the idea to most of her criminal stories while she was taking a bath, enjoying apples?
- that the Astronaut John Glenn was the first person having a meal in space eathing apple sauce from a tube onboard Friendship 7 in 1962?
- that an apple, an onion and a potato tast all alike, it is the smell that makes the difference.
Try yourself by holding your nose and taste a peace of each, they all taste sweet.
- apples belong to the rose family?
- fresh apples floats because 25 % of their volume is air.